Article source: Bornstein Lyckefors Arkitekter AB

On Kallaxön in the very north of Sweden outside Luleå lies house Granholmen a small light green wooden summer cottage.

The area surrounding the house is characterized by an intense greenery with conifers covering the island's inner parts and deciduous trees at the waters edge. There is no distinctive tradition of the classic Swedish red houses in this part of the archipelago.

Instead the building, which is located just by the water, is painted with green calcimine to tie it to the immediate surroundings. It is a pale light green tone that is chosen to shine with the erected copper-green ceiling. Together they form a solid whole that becomes one with all the green shades on the tree-covered headland.

Image Courtesy © Carl Axel Bejre

• Architects: Bornstein Lyckefors Arkitekter AB
• Project: Granholmen
• Location: Luleå, Sweden
• Photography: Carl Axel Bejre
• Software used: Autocad
  
• Design Team: Josefine Wikholm, Andreas Lyckefors
  
• Area: 40 kvm plus loft

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